Rachel Weston

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Rachel M. Weston of Burlington, Vermont, is a 2007–8 member of the Vermont House of Representatives She was born in 1981. Weston is the youngest serving member of the Vermont State Legislature. She serves as a member of the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee.

She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2003 (BA, Anthropology) and the University of Vermont in 2006 (MPA, Public Administration). Prior to pursuing a Masters, she was a public school teacher and worked with community non-profit organizations. As a graduate student she worked as a research assistant and with the Vermont Commission on Women and United Nations. She served as President of the UVM Graduate Student Senate, and as a Campus Compact Civic Engagement Fellow.